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The House at 43, Hill Road tells of the aristocratic Braz Rodrigues, who built his house in the mid-1800s, on the plot where it all happened, with family vignettes, and how his grand daughter-in-law Lydia made the address known worldwide for the exquisite wedding gowns she designed. It goes on to …

Anuradha Vijayakrishnan’s debut collection of poetry, The Who-Am-I Bird, explores identity: real, mythical, assumed, desired. These poems attempt to navigate the rope-thin bridges and backwater-wide gaps between her many worlds, inner and other. Many of these poems are simple conversations with unknown listeners. Many of them wear a mask as they …

Information for/from Outsiders: Chronicles from Kashmir has been in development since 2013, as a collaboration between Dr. Nandita Dinesh and the Ensemble Kashmir Theatre Akademi in Srinagar. Chronicles from Kashmir uses Argentine playwright Griselda Gambaro’s (1992) Information for Foreigners as its point of departure; it takes place in the promenade …

Nandita Dinesh places Kipling’s ‘six honest serving-men’ (who, what, when, where, why, how) in productive conversation with her own experiences in conflict zones across the world to offer a theoretical and practical reflection on making theatre in times of war. This timely and important book weaves together Dinesh’s personal narrative …

“Naniji, tell me your story.” What begins as a young woman’s question to her grandmother unexpectedly turns into a family saga. Compiled through family albums, home videos, journal entries, and interviews, Yarn follows the life of Pragya Bhagat’s grandmother, Shyama. At the age of ten, the Partition pushes Shyama from …

ABOUT THE BOOK Author: Kiran Manral Genre: Romance PAPERBACK Pages: 141 ISBN 13: 978-8193642856 ISBN 10: 8193642856 Trim: 5 x 8 inches Maya, in her mid-thirties, divorced and with a young son, finds herself in a tangle both professionally and emotionally as she attempts to navigate life post-divorce. Will she put …

Author: Mrinalini Harchandrai Genre: Jazz poetry PAPERBACK Page Count: 170 ISBN 13: 978-8193642801 ISBN 10:8193642805 Trim: 5.5 x 8.5 inches Mrinalini Harchandrai’s first collection of poetry, A Bombay In My Beat, offers a literary ear to the songs and frequencies from the music player during her growing years and the soundtracks …

A City of Sungazers is Bombaykala and Queenie Sukhadia’s first book. Queenie grew up in Mumbai, India, where she attended the Cathedral and John Connon School and Dhirubhai Ambani International School before attending Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. She graduated from Dartmouth College in 2016 with a double major …

Bombaykala Books is a Mumbai-based book publishing house for the global reader. It publishes poetry, fiction, translations, non-fiction and academic works with a worldwide distribution for print and digital books.